The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

RIGS WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. rHIBI DAY.—Morning, lh. 59m.—Afternoon, 2t. 21m. ro - ituksow.-Morning, 2h. 47 m,—Afternoon, h. ]Om. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,' Covent-garden. There will in this week be five opera nights, viz.. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and z , ,aturday. Extra Night. _ Mdlle. Adelina Patti ; Signori Rc.nconf, Scalese and Mario. THIS EVENING (MONDAY), June 20, will be per formed, for the last Um,- but one this season, Rossini's opera, IL BARBIERE DI S; VR,LIA. Rosins, Mehle. Adelina Patti ; Bertha, Madame Tagliafico ; Figaro, Signor Ronconi ; Bartolo, Signor Scalese ; Basilio, Signor Tagliafico; F orello, Signor Polonini ; Sargente, Signor Rossi ; and Almaviva, Signor Mario. - - Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 75. ; amphitheatre eta ls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. arophitheatre.".2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is zpen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GAIIRICIi. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weatheraby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by (for the 7th time) LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, lir. Howe, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Last 6 Nights of Hamlet and the present Season. Mr. FECHTER will perform HA3ILEr THIS EVENING (Monday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden hell ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. IV: 31`Intyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Miss M lienrade ; and Gertrude, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half-past 7, and Hamlet COM- VellCeS at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVFNIN will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slot's , Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, &c.; Miss Stafford and seas Caroline Carson. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Franchi, Mr. Vining; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. t:\TEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, AI)ELPHI.- 2JIO Proprietor and Manger, Mr. B. Webster. fl TUIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S ?SOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. R. Phillips. Followed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his ori,ginal character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, -uppo• ted by Messrs. A. <tirline, J. L. Toole, 'l'. Stuart, Paul Bedford, B'llington; Miss IV oolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, &c. To conclude with TrIE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, it. itcmer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro tided with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boucicault ,Esq., every Evening. Re engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Mathew's. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular mmes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. _Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. .,. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr, F. Kobinson. Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss IL r.t , imms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. - - - - At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and orizinal Comedy, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash.ey, Mr. W. Cham er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta:Simms. At 10, by particular desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. . . Commence at 7, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada Swannorough. After which, INIAZOITRK A. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, dm. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &e. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE lIES CUE. Mr. T. Thorne:. Commence at 7. THE ASCOT,—RACE GLASSES (the best), at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.8.--ziole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. 'DAMS BONNETS for. JUNE.—Mesgrs. JAY'S mana2er has h s day returned from Paris with an Ist,ortment of the most elegant and fasWonatofe Summer Bonnets, selected from the magasins ct the first houses in that city. _ . JAY'S, The London General Mourning Warehouse, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. June 1, 1864. 7kTOVEL STYLE b FRENCH BONNETS..— Fre:,ch fasit'on has produced Bonnets for this mouth of a light go earner texture. whin aft .!mmodate the present style of wearing ant displayir.g the lady's it i.:-. They are of the most exquiAte variety, sad, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe. Tally Imported from Paris for JAY'S, The Lc:r.l.on General tlourning Warehouse, 247, 249, and 231, Regent-street. COALS.—The LILLESHALL CO'AIPA.NY'S lJ COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 23s. per ton. I Double.. 2os. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Weatbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Ms. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. Ti HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," a_ Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, an be bad Every Evening of G. ft. G'LENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4.. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 20, 1864. - THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 66 Barometer-29.94. WIND -S.W. ; fresh breeze, and very fine. - 1 4 ' , LONDON, JNE 20, MONDAY,U - 1864. The Government on Friday ev ening sustained one of the severest shocks that have yet assailed its tot tering strength. It is true that they escaped a re petition of those defeats which have been gr ow i ng lately by no means uncommon, and that the divi sion which closed a lengthened debate resulted in their favour, But the victory was like that of PYRRHUS, scarcely less damaging than a repulse , and in fact a majority of seven in a house of four hundred and fifty-nine members is a virtual defeat. The real blow to the Cabinet, however, was not the alarming amount of the minority, or the narrow escape of a vote of censure, circumstances suffi ciently ominous in themselves to produce a strong manifestation of party feeling on the doelaration of the numbers; the real danger to the Govern ment was in the debate which preceded the divi- Con , and in the startling disclosures which it elicited, and whose effect no counter charges, however reck less, no official ingenuity, however skilful, could avail to mitigate. The Government stand con victed, unless they can bring forward a much more satisfactory defence than any they have as yet made, individually or collectively, of having rashly ex posed the lives of our troops to needless danger, of h av ing hastily entered into a war which was likely to bring us nothing but loss and discredit, of having entirely neglected those precautions for the health end accommodation of the men which th e mos t o - (Ammon prude nse would direct to be dicary rules of c nch mi re i n fo'lowed in the healthiest locality., m the deadliest spot of a coast which has been styled, with only too much truth, the grave of _Lure ?ammo It seems that while proclaimin g cur love of peace with a fervour and a pertinacity that make mg the laughing-stuck of tLe civilised world, we are engaged in half a dozen wars in outlandish quarters while essrcely know ing it. Certainly, as Sir SOHN HAY remarked, is was not until very recently generally known that we were at war with the King of ASHANTEE, and we might almost quote the hacknied lines which tells us that 'tie folly to ba wise in some cases, since a more melancholy and humiliating record of human life waited and needless t tatting inflicted by official indifference and mismanagement has clidona dark- sued our annals. Ashantee is sLuated in the Bight of Benin, in one of the most unfavourable parts of that sickly locality. We have a treaty with its KING, dealing among other points with matters of extradition, always excepting the restitution of escaped slaves. Two slaves fled to Cape Coast, bearing with them, it is said, some stolen gold. The KING insisted upon their extradition on the ground that they were criminals. The Governor objected on the ground that they were slaves. Evidence of their guilt was demanded, and argu ments went on. Surely this was a case for negotia tion or compromise rather than warfare. But the KING proceeded to ravage a territory under the protectorate of England, and forthwith a war was commenced, if that can be called a war in which our troops ware matched with no mortal foe, but with the pestilence that walketh in darkness, that de• stroyeth in the noonday. A large number of troops, mostly coolies from the West Indies, were landed on Cape Coast Castle at the commencement of the rainy reason, without any adequate preparation being made for their reception or accommodation in a country in which, above all others, such provision is a matter of absolute necessity. Cape Coast Castle, 1,100 miles from Sierra Leone, is a settlement standing en a projecting rock. To the east of it is a small river, which during the great part of the year is a swamp, and whose water is unfit for the use of man or beast. It is well known that one of the worst of the many insidious dangers of the gold coast is the quality of the water, which produces a dire disease. The water used in this settlement is collected in tanks for the dry season, and the quantity of water required for the use of the regular garrison-250 men—was kept in the port. What official eloquence, what skilful special pleading, can mitigate the fact of sending men to such a coast without any provision for supplying them with extra water ? It is useless to tell us of a distilling apparatus which got to work in May, when the troops were landed in August, as it is useless for the Prime Minister to declare that en the course of a few days after they arrived they were all played under shelter. In the course of a few days in a climate like that of the Gold Coast ! As Mr. COCHRANE reminded the House, those charged with the interests of the navy must have known the nature of that coast, where at some seasons the vapours are of a poisonous and dangerous character. The result of the whole affair was, that two expedi tions were sent up the country, one of 700 men, of whom 180 were dead within five days, another of 400 men, of whom half were dead oe disabled. Is this a result likely to strike terror to the Ashantee King ? Private accounts are even more frightful in their details. A letter, well authenticated, but whose writer was not mentioned, says that out of twenty-six officers nearly half have been invalided home, three have died, and four are so ill as to be confined to bed; while of the twelve medical offi cers who accompanied these ill •fated troops three are fever-stricken, three more invalided, and one dead ; so that the condition of the surgeons is not much better than that of their patients. Four weeks ago Sir JOHN .PAKINGTON called attention to the state of affairs, when the Colonial Secretary announced that it was the intention of the Govern ment to despatch transports immediately to the fatal spot to remove from it troops equal in number to the extra reinforcements, so as to reduce the amount to those ordinarily accommodated. This four weeks ego; but the promise so glibly given was kept after the fashion of most Whig pledges. The best the Government could do to retrieve its error and save the victims of its precipitancy and folly from still heavier losses was to advertise for a sailing vessel—not a steamer, on account of the eapeuse. mfgLt the House murmur at such a tale. But even then the full measure of cruel neglect was not filed up. Such as she is, this sai:ing vessel has not yet started. The best tender that was offered was taken, says Lord C. PAGET, and the men have been working day and night to get her ready. The naval reputation of the Govern ment must stand high indeed if the best Tease offered for their service needs a month's hard work to get her fit for sea. Mr. CORRY spoke the feeling of the House and the country when he said that " The moment the cry of distress came from Africa the Admiralty ought to have applied to one of the great steam navigation companies for one of their most powerful, roomy, and rapid steamers at any price. But when Sir JOHN HAY mourning the loss of a near rela- tive sacrificed in this wanton waste of life gave notice of his motion, a sadden energy inspired the Government. They gave orders that the Gladiator should at once sail for Cape Coast to fetch away the remnant of the troops. Bat with all the fine vessels at their disposal the Admiralty thought fit to select a ship declared on unquestioneble authority to be totally unfitted for the purpose, thus needlessly aggravating the sufferings of the invalids, She is to be met at Cape de Verde by a sailing transport, to take the coolies to the West Indies. Wby, since the Portuguese will not permit them to land there, not have sent two steamers to convey them at once in comfort across the Atlantic ? The landing of the troops recalls most forcibly the disembarks- tion in the Crimea ; in fact General PEEL, a mem. ber of the memorable committee, declared that we had, on the Gold Coast, a repetition on a smaller scale of all the horrors of the first winter in the Crimea. The responsibility of such mibmanage- meat cannot b© lightly got rid of. Lard PALMER- "WS defence was a signal failure, He endeaT- _ . oared, with his usual ingenuity, to turn the ques tion from the management of the troops to the war; bit even then it was impossible not to remem ber that the Minister who so emphatically declared that the honour of the country required that Eng lish protection should not be an empty word, had not carried out that p r i nciple quite so boldly in the north of Europe es on th e African Uold Coast. The noble attempt to di vert the matter from a national question into a Party movement was also lord's unsuccessful. Jokes fell Rat before the lists of the dead and disabled. Indignant denials and rash assertions were powerless unsupported by evidence. man life. It is no light thing to trifle away 1,, However innocent the intention, it is no pardonable offence to undertake great duties and to neglect their adequate fulfilment. Englishmen will rever shrink from sacrificing their lives when duty 0 ,11, them, but they will not tamely submit to a lavish expenditure of life and treasure through a coal. bination of recklessness, improvidence, and neglect. There are few things more difficult to define than the nature of appointments it is almost impossible to draw a line as to wh ere i n fl uence s h ou ld no t pre vail, and favouritism have no share. It is seldom that so glaring an instance of this kind of thing is made manifest as was the case the other night when Mr. FERRAND brought forward his moticn on the Board of Charity Commissioners. The hon. member did not do his cause any service by nsing such vehement language, but, at the same time, he adduced arguments which it may be presumed were unanswerable, for no member of the Governs ment attempted to refute them. Mr. BRUCE ex pressed virtuous indignation at the tone adopted by Mr. FERRAND, and in this plea he very ingeni ously shuffled out of inquiry on the subject. If he really considered that the Commissioners were so misrepresented in the statements of the boo. mem ber, surely the best service that he could have rendered to them would have been to have proved the fallacy of his arguments, and contradicted his assertions in the most effective manner by an inves tigation. There is no use whatever in making the excuse that such a thing would have been done had this been otherwise or that taken place in a different manner. The fact is, that all legislation that depends on "ifs'' for its basis is very purpose less, and when the apologists of a system are so willing to seize on every available excuse, it makes one suspieious as to their chance of success if the subject had been thoroughly sifted. It is quite cer tai❑ that, allowing for exaggeration by Mr. Fan- RAND, quite sufficient remains to prove that great blame attaches to the authorities in their manage meat of this matter, and that the public wculd be surprised and displeased if all the facts were elicited. It is always the fate of these transactions that the secret at last creeps out, and when an inkling of the affair is made farther attempts of concealment only aggravate the evil and increase the dilemma. It would seem as if all the golden days of prosperity for the Ministers were now over, as if the " sun that shone so long on them it now had ceased to shine," for turn which way they will they find nothing but censure passed on their con duct, and meet with nothing but disapproval, The speech of Mr. FERRAND, which has been permitted to go first to the country uncontradicted in all im portant particulars, will do great damage to official credit, or there will be many not slow to remark that the most was made of the ingenious excuse of " personal attack," while no defence was essayed ; and a sort of deprecatory expostulation put forward in lieu of a plain reply to direct charges and decided remarks. For instance, Mr. FERRAND avers that the Charity Board of Commissioners was a " select nest of Whigs ;" and Mr. BRUCE discreetly waives the consideration of that part of the question, but declares that they were ail men of acknowledged ability and integrity; in short, all honourable men. But Mr. FERRAND went much further than dealing in generalities, of hinting vaguely at this or that discrepancy in the conduct of this department. He spoke in very plain terms of some signal in stances of patronage, in which public interest was completely lost sight of, in order that some private motives might prevail and secret intentions be duly carried out. Mr. OSBORNE in his amusing speech made some very telling observations on the state of the case as it stands at present. He said, that to allow grave charges to pass like this was a great injury done to the gentlemen in the public offices, and that such assertions must be mat with an inquiry. This is a grave statement, that ought to have weighed with the Government, but doubt less they know best what sort of answer would be made. As the case stands now a gross injustice has been done to these gentlemen ; it is always an erroneous practice to omit explanations when charges of so grave a nature are brought forward. There is nothing in which the Government ought to be more careful than in selecting fit and compe tent persons to undertake important duties, and certainly from what was mentioned on Thurs day, it would not appear as if this de sirable end had been at all arrived at. It seems strange that Lord PALMERSTON should have allowed such aspersions o❑ his character to pass by unnoticed, either by himself or some of h'.4l friends and supporters. There is no doubt that all these remarks and observations were more dir. , cted against the authorities in headquarters than against the more humble individuals chiefly mentioned. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that much and all 'was true that Mr. FERRAND so 'vehemently declared about Mr. StmoNs and others, nothing i❑ the statement at all effected their reputation com pared with the manner in which it compromised those who had appointed him to the office he filled. It is a serious thing to say against any official that for party ends and private purposes he has been in. dnced to appoint those he knows are not competent to any post whatever, and therefore it does appear inconsistent that no explanation was vouchsafed, and no answer given to the series of extraordinary relations, and the curious questions put by the hon. member for Newport. He overreached him self in being so bitter, for many who might have supported him, had he come forward in a quieter style, were naturally deterred from acting when they found the matter so personal and almost offensive in its bearing. Still, enough has been said or done to inflict considerable damage on the management of the whole affair, and the successful extrication of the Government from the committee did not preclude the awkwardness altogether which inseparably attaches itself to these insinuations and suggestions. It would appear as if the Cabinet cared for nothing that did not absolutely imperil their position, and prevent them from keeping in their possession the blessings of place and power. We make no apology for again adverting to the question of the " Amalgamation of the Customs and Excise," being well assured that it is a subject which may with great advantage engage the attention of all practical reformers. For although we are not sanguine enough to believe that the time will ever come—certainly not in our generation—when the duties collected by these great revenue departments will be reduced within such limits that the two services may be undertaken by one Commission, yet are we equally confident in our belief that there are many departments in the two services performing analogous duties, we refer more especially to those of law and statistics, which might, with great advantage to the public interest and a corresponding economy of the public purse, be united under one control. In animadverting upon the grievances of the Custom House officials, as set forth in the numerous petitions which have lately been presented to the House of Commons, we have taken especial care not to confound the public weal with the personal inte rests of the petitioners. Inasmuch as private rights must give way to the public good ; so great as are the grievances alleged by the Custom House of f icials, were they not inconeistent with the public good, we should decline in the interests of the public to have anything to do with them. But we stated then, as we take leave now to re peat, that the system which obtains in this branch of the civil service, whilst operating prejudicially in respect to those employed is at the same time both inefficient and unsatisfactory to the mercantile public generally. The numerous letters which have appeared in our columns, as well as in those of our cont emporaries —not even excepting those of our London C harivari, of whom we are all proud—in approval o f our retnarka, and condemnatory of Custom-house official procedure, are, in themselves, undeniable evidence of this fact, as well as showing that the public are alive to the manifold incon veniences arising from their circumlocutory mode of transacting business, and to the baneful effects— the penny-wise and pound-foolish system —of insufficiently remunerating a most useful and in telligent branch of Government officials. On a former occasion we showed that, by a sim plification of the system of accounts and a re-ar rangement of departments, both the public and the employes could be radically end permanently bene fited—the former by receiving etatisticul informa tion in a more direct, and therefore speedier manner; the letter by being paced on a footing in unison evidenced by frequent resignations--we at once conclude that there is a wrong to be remediA. " Übi jus ibi reniedium . ' is a maxim es applicable here as in a court of law or equity. And although the amount of right of these complainants is one of com parison only, it ie not the leas a right, for both civil society and individual status are alike estimated by this standard of comparison. In what way, then, can the heart-burnings and discontent of this generally deserving class of offi cials be removed, and the service restored to a really sound and workable condition ? Any large addition to the Civil Service Estimates would hardly be submitted to in the present temper of the House of Commons ; nor would the Government be justified in any such proposal. But such an addition is not sought by these petitioners. The whole that is really required is that the House of Commons should fol low in the wake of public opinion in the manage- ment of the business Which the nation intrusts to them. Let them i graLt the Committee which the petitioners ask for. Let their alleged grievances be thoroughly sifted by the Committee when granted; but above all, we speak in the interest of the public, let the mode of transacting business whether in passing an Entry or supplying Accounts, undergo a thorough and searching investigation. Forpe i u n the ourselves, r , believe that there i s a m pl e see e e s dundancy of forms and circumlo cutory system of obtaining accounts from the Customs through the Board of Trade for the pruning knife of a judicioas legislator, as well as in placing analogous departments under one management, and in weeding the service of those who are either use less or unnecessary. It is to this last that we should look to effect a saving that might be beneficially applied in increasing the incomes of the really effective employes of the service. Above all, as a means of removing the prevailing discontent, let due consideration be given to all well-founded complaints; since it is manifestly un just to treat officials from whom the Government has exacted a high standard of education and effi ciency, and who confessedly discharge their duties intelligently and faithfully, with studied indiffe rence or shuffling expedients. We all know from the returns which the Statisti cal department of the Customs has furnished Mr' LINDSAY that all branches of commerce have doubled, and in many cases quadrupled, within the last 1:5 years. We also know that with the increase and diffusion of wealth come habits more expensive and tastes more refined, and it is only right and just that the Government cfficials should participate with the rest of the community in this higher standard of civilizition and refinement. We would further take leave to remind the Go vernment that this is the era of amalgamations. The most acute and business-like men in the City act upon the time-honoured maxim that " Union is Strength," and in furtherance of this principle have found that no great undertakings can be carried out with reasonable hope of profit except by Companies and Societies. Indeed, so strongly imbued is the public mind with this "idea" that the majority of our Minkitig, and many mercantile firms, haveeither themselves fused for their better success, cr have quietly glided into joint-stock companies ; it having been practically demonstrated that Companies can work cheaper from their organization being at once more simple and complete, thus enabling them to remunerate their servants better, while securing at the same time en ample profit to their share holders. So it must also be with the C us t oms an d th e Ex cise. willing or unwilling the governing bodies of thess departments must prepare themselves to follow, since they will not lead, in the wake of public opinion. Either the high salaries given to Boards and Chiefs of departments are for their past services or their present management. If for the former, let them take what they have earned and be gone ! If for the latter, let them give the State the results of their experience, and, like the great Sir RoWLAND HILL, organise and reorganise their departments until the complaints of the public are satisfied, and the discontent and dissatisfaction of the Service removed. ROYAL ITALIAX OPERA.—Their Royal High nesses the Prince and Pane Ells of Wales, accom panied by their Royal llighnEsses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Baroness de Grancey, Baron Westerweller, and Col. Kep pel. Among the fashionable company present were the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Granada, the Marquis of Harlington, the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl Granville, the Countess of Fife, the Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven, the Earl and Countess of Egmont, the Earl and Countess of Bective, the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Count and Countess Wczele, Count BatbyanY, Viscount and Viscountess Hereford, Viscount Hinchinbroke, Vis • count Maynard and the lion. Miss Maynard, Lord and Lady Yoltimore and Mims Sheridan, Lord Stanley of Alder ley, Lady Panmure, Lord Hastings, Lord and Lady Trede gar, Lady Ilcntietta Allen and Miss Allen, Lady Gertrude Rolle anti the Hon. Mark Rolle, Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Florence Paget, Lady Honeywood, Lord and Lady Walls• court and the Hon. Miss Blake and the Hon. Mrs J. Mac donald, Lady Augusta Milbank and Mr Milbank, Lady Dashwcod, Lord and Lady Edward Thynhe, Lord Dan. over, Colonel the Hon. St. George Foley, Hon. Mrs Cast, Hon. Mrs Duff, Hon. Mrs Dudley Ward, Hon. Mrs Pereira, Hon. Mr and Mrs F. Steam., Hon. F. L. Gower, Hon. Eliot, Lady W. Fraser, Sir Laurence Palk, Sir G. Army. tage, Lady Gooch and Mies Gooch, Lord Rutland and Lady Airoy, Admiral Ryd er B ar t o n, Colonel Farquharson (of Invercauld), Colonel Minchin, Colonel Dickson and Mrs Dickson, Colonel C u ddy, C o l on el AireY) Major Gage, Cap tain Pemberton, Captain Spiers, Mrs Cavendish liontinck, Btc. _ _ HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.---The Queen's box at Her Majesty's Theatre was, on Saturday evening, occupied by the Countess de Gay and party. Amongst the numerous visitors also honouring Her Majesty's Theatre with their attendance were the Duke and Duchess of Wel lington, the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Countess of Bective, the Earl of Mountcharles, the Countess of Desart, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, the Viscountess Midleton, the Vis count Exmouth, Lord Edward Thynne, Lady Clarges, Lady Lawley, Lady Mary Pane, General Sir G. Bowles, K.C.8., Sir Ralph lloward, Bart., and Lady Howard, General Sir Proby Cantley, Sir Ivor Bertie Guest. Bart, &G. ASSEMBLY AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE,—VisCOUnt and Viscountess Palmerston gave a grand dinner on Sa turday evening at Cambridge Hcuse, Piccadilly. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, C. 8., honoured the noble Premier and her ladyship by his company. Ledy Herbert of Lea, we learn by telegraph, is detained at Constantinople by the serious illness, from fever, of her eldest daughter, Lady Mary Herbert. It will be recollected by many of our readers that her ladyship and family passed the winter in Egypt, and, following the example of most of the English tourists in the East, after leaving Alexandria went on a tour in Turkey. The Earl of Pembroke and Lady Mauds Herbert had left Constanti• nople for home before Lady Mary was taken ill, intending to proceed to England via Trieste and Vienna. The youth ful earl and his sister are daily expected to reach London. Lady Mull has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Thu Dowsger Lady Bowyer Scaiith and Mr and Mrs Bary have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, oh their return to Thorpe Lice, When found in a sinking state the Alabama ceased fighting, and lowered her boats, in which the dead and wounded were placed. Shortly after terwards the Alabama sank, the officers and crew jumping into the sea, when the Kearsage's boats came up to assist in saving the crew. The cffieer in command of the boats inquired for Semmes, and was told that he was drowned, whereas he had already been picked up by the yacht Deerhound and stowed away, the yacht having then steamed off with all speed, expecting the Kearsage would attempt to capture those on board. Before the Alabama left Cherbourg to engage the Kears,ge Capt. Semmes sent on shore an iron chest containing specie, 60 chronometers, and other valuables. The engagement is described by the owner of the yacht Deerhound as a most brilliant affair, the fighting being severe and at short distance. The Alabama's guns were served most rapidly, but doing less execution. The Kearsage, however, is said to have sustained much damage, her sides being torn open, showing the chain plating. The officers of the Alabama estimate their loss in killed and wounded at from 30 to 40 men. Captain Semmes is very unwell, through being in the water a considerable time, and in consequence of the wound in his hand. FRANCE. MARSEILLES, JUNE 20. Advices from Tangiers state that the Governor of retuan has been dismissed and thrown into prison. MARSEILLES JUNE 20. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, Capt. Burnet, left here yesterday with the India end China mails. She took 40 passengers, 391 packages of merchandise, £lBB,OlB in specie for India and China, and 60 passengers, 1,774 packages and specie, value £5,210, for Alexandria. Advices from Alexandria state that the Emir Addel-liader, after having terminated his pilgrim age to Mecca, was brought from Suez to Cairo on the 6th by a special railway train. M. de Sainte Foix, the French consul, went to receive him at the station, and conducted him to the palace of Missafir. Ranch, placed at his disposal by the Viceroy. The Emir's intention was to have proceeded immediately to Syria, but es the packet for Beyrout would not leave for a fortnight, he intended to devote the in terval to visiting the works of the Suez Canal. BOURSE, June 18.—The market continues in the same unsettled state, with little business doing. Threes, for the Account, after having been done a; 66f, 5c., are now at 66fr. 121 c.. with rather sellers then buyers. Mobilier are a trifle lower, having been last done at 1,077 f. 50e. Railway Market weak, and some of the lines have slightly receded. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 10 Credit M °hiller 1076 25 Do. end month 1075 Bank Shares 3395 Credit F oncier 1240 Italian Loan..- 69 90 Do. end month 69 90 Ditto Threes 43 New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 5ll Home Debt Roman Deferred ZU IL WA Y 8 . Orleans S e • • •• • • Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona Cash. Account. 871 25 .. 870 987 50 .. 992 50 877 50 .. 877 50 650 - .. 651 25 502 50 465 - .. 465 - 366 25 .. 367 50 406 25 .. 410 - 625 - 527 50 441 25 443 75 568 75 570 255 - 257 50 HIS HOLINESS THE POPE, at the instigation of the ...krchreological Institution of Rome, is about to restore Cola di Rienzi's house near the Temple of Vesta. " BROTHER BERNARD" of the English Order of St. Benedict, has joined the Roman Catholio Church at " St. Joseph's Retreat," Highgate. MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S "Great Expectations" has been translated into French by Ch. B. Derosne. BLAKE'S CONVERSATION WITH THE GHOST OF VOLTAIRE,—When the shrewd English barrister asked whether Voltaire spoke in English, Blake replied, " The impression on my mind was English of course, but I have no doubt that he touched the keys French." A FRENCH SENSATION NOVEL has just appeared called " Les Drames de hiontfaucon," in which the prat • tices of the barber of the middle ages, who supplied h's neighbour the pastry cook with human flesh for pies, are set forth in true modern sensational language. " ANYTHING NEW IN THE PAPERS P'—" Some thing A-maizing.—The celebrated paper manufactory of Schlagelmuhl, at Vienna, has succeeded, after many at tempts, in producing excellent paper from maize leaves. EARL RUSSELL'S FIRST WIFE, the Countess of Ribblesdale, was a widow, and a lady of ample proportions, hence his lordship was called by the wits the widow's mite. "Oh I" exclaimed a lady to whom this witticism was re lated at a dinner party, " I now see how it came to pass that his lordship was cast into the Treasury l"—Bristol Mercury. QUEEN'S PLATES.—Mr. Percy Wyndham has given notice that on Tuesday, the 28th June, he will move in the Commons, " That as the annual grant of sums of money voted by this house for Queen's Plates no longer encourages the breed of good horses, .the object for which it was originally given, it should for the future be discon tinued." The Royal servants (with the exception of those in immediate attendance upon her Majesty) have resumed their scarlet liveries, with crape on the left arm. Her Ma jesty has not yet allowed any music at the Castle. The private band does not play, and the military relieve guard without the band or drums and fifes playing,—Caurt Journal. MARSHAL PELISSIER is to have a statue in the middle of the Boulevare de Sebastopol." RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF THE ►SOLDIERS AND MARINES.—From a return which has been made to Parliament of the numbers and religious denomina tions of all the soldiers in her Majesty's land marine forces, whether stationed at home or abroad, it appears that on the Ist of April last a total of 194,266 men were classed as follows :—Episcopalians, 109,760 ; Presbyterians, 20,79 8 ; other Protestants, 5,290; Roman Catholics, 58,508. In the cavalry there were 15,015 Protestants of all denominations and 2,707 Roman Catholics; while in the infantry of the ling the proportion differs considerably, the number of Pro testants Laing 82,518, and of Roman Catholics 48,348. The Royal Marines numbered on the same date 15,193 Protestants of all denominations, and 1,448 Roman Catholics. THE LIVERPOOL RA3ts.—A correspondent, in a letter to us, writes as follows :—Had the British Ministry allowed the two Liverpool rams, the Pampero, and the iron cased fripto now belonging to the Danish Government, and lying in Glasgow harbour, to go to the assistance of the Confederates, the strong probability is that ere now the latter would have achieved their independence, and the lives of between 100,000 and 200,000 men saved. Truly the Whig Ministry have much to answer for, THE SIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING„TUNE 20, 1864. with other branches of the Civil Service performing analogous duties to themselves. At the same as, the increased cost, as shown, king trifling, com pared with the great advantages that would immea diately accrue to all the parties concerned. As guardians of the public purse we would never advocate any system that should be productive of needless expense; but when we see demoralisation and dissatisfaction eating like a canker into a great department of the State; when, moreover, we see the discontent of a large and respectable body of public officials—a discontent, too, which in candour we cannot say is unjustified by the causes al leged as the grounds thereof, as well as being LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DESTRITMON OF THE " ALABAMA," SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 20. From further particulars received here of yester day's engagement it appears that Capt. Semmes accepted the challenge of the Kearsage to fight, although aware that his adversary carried 50 more men than his own vessel, and was a larger ship with heavier gunk. Capt. Semmes was not, how ever, aware the Kearsage was chain-plated under her outside planking. Shortly after the action commenced a shot from. the Koarsage killed three men on board the Ala bama, cutting them to pieces, and a second shot wounded three more men and killed another; while a third shot carried away the blade of the Alabama's fan and part of the rudder on her deck, disabling a gun and causing much damage. Below and forward her compartments were all carried away, and the fire-room was filled with water. The Alabama fought under sail, first using her starboard battery, and afterwards her port battery. Sne continued the engagement until the muzzles of her guns were under water, and one part of her deck was covered with dead and wounded. LITERATURE. Maude Talbot. By Holme Lee. With Five Illus trations, New edition, One vol. pp, 405. Smitb, Elder, and Co, The new volume of Messrs. Smith and Elder's illustrated editions of popular works contains a reissue of Halms Lee's very charming story of " Maude Talbot," a very happy selection, for the history of the ambitious Maude and the gentle Lettice is full of interest and instruction. In the frontispiece, the fair heroine is seen deep in a momentous reverie, discussing the rival claims of Love and Ambition. The poet has told us how when " Love took S up the glass of Time and turned it in his glowing Maud , - E very moment lightly shaken ran itself in golden sands." Maude Talbot makes a different selection, and the golden Enashino is banished from her life. The story is one of the best from Holme Lee's prolific pea. Thoughts from a Girl's Life, By Lucy Fletcher. Ono vol. pp. 162. Macmillan and Co. "These verses," says the writer, " aro the true expressions of the thoughts and feelings of a girl's life, and as such they are given specillly to other girls." The little poems thus introduced justify their author's comment. They ere eminently thoughtful and suggestive of thought. They do not evince any great poetical merit, but are remarkable for their simplicity and earnestness. In one little poem, entitled " Singing," the fair authoress ex claims, and evidently with truth— " I sing my heart out for the gladness in it, As less a poet than a happy bird, Singing because I must snag as the linnet, Unthinking by what ears my song is heard." Some of her fanciful images are felicitous, as when the speaks of the leaves and flowers wakened in the early morning by the "mother kits of dawn." One little poem, " The Children's Future," is very hap pily conceived and very ingeniously carried out — the moral lesson of life— " Here is love His to be trusted, Yonder to be understood," receives in these simple verses a very appropriate and charming illustration. Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster. By D'Arey W. Thompson. One Vol. pp. 328. Eamonston and Douglas. In a kindred spirit to that in which Childe Harold detested Horace as associated with the reminiscences of the Latin grammar— ig The dull task that daily turned My sickening memory," —in a kindred spirit does the Schoolmaster before us express his disapproval of the ordinary forcing, mechanical, and incomprehensible system of modern education. Pitifully does he dilate upon the sorrows of his early experiences, when, at the age of seven and a half he entered as a pupil on the under form at St. Edmund's. THE LATIN GRAMMAR. The day after my entry into this colossal institution, a Latin grammar was placed into my hands. It was a bulky hook of its kind : considering the diminutiveness of the new student, a portentously bulky nook. It was bulky in con sequence of its comprehensiveness. It gave all imaginable rules, and all imaginable exceptions. It had providentially stored within it the requisite gear for whatever casualty might befall us. The syntax rules, in the edition presented to me, were, for the first time, rendered mercifully in Eng lish : those for gender and quantity remained in the old Latin; and the Latin was communicated in a hideously discordant rhythm. Over a space of years we went syste matically through and through that book ; page atter page, chapter after chapter. It was all unintelligible ; al. obscure ; but some spots were wrapt in more tnan ordinary gloom. Our chronic bewilderment was varied from time to time by shooting pains, brought on by some passage or expression unusually indigestible. We read of creatures, happily few in number, that went about in the .Epiecene (lender. 'Were they fish, flesh, or fowl ? Would the breed be ever extinct ? Under certain desperate circumstances, a participle and a noun together were bound hand and foot, and put into the Ablative Absolute. What had they done, to be treated in a manner thus peremptory, unreasonable, crotchety? Did they ever get out after being once put in ? Then there were gerunds in 1)1, Do, and _Dum. How they recalled to us that old Fee, .Fl, To, i'um, and the smell of English blood I And supines in The and U. What was the meaning of these cabalistic nank4i ? I did not know then ; and I don't know now. And yet I have been behind the scholastic curtain fur twelve long years. Bewailing the fate of himself and his fellow-victims ho continues The round-shot of a Latin grammar had been, I believe, tied to our legs, to prevent our intellectually straying. However, in course of time we became habituated to the encumbrance, and ceased to feel it as a serious check upon our movements. The how' e.tlength arrived, in which it was considered wise to attach another round-shot to our other legs. This was done accordiogly in the shape of a Greek grammar, written entirely in Latin. This extra weight answered the purpose effectually : we were all brought to an immediate standstill. A little later on the Schoolmaster tells us how be would impart Latin and other learning after his own fashion, by calling in aid the understanding rather than the memory. A quaint humour per vades the whole series of meditations, In the one chapter entitled " Teeth on edge and ciosed lips" we have an amusing glimpse of university exami nations and school exhibitions, beginning—* The Cardinal of Westminster has the reputation of bein the bast Latinist of all that now wear scarlet stockings. What an interesting experiment it would be to kidnap his Eminence with the ambassador from Athens into the Cam bridge senate house, when the annual prize exercises were being read in Latin and Greek verse. The very delightful chapter on " Nursery Reform" is worthy of being read by all mothers and all Governesses. The Schoolmaster premises that he loves little children— And I care not whether they be blonde or brown ; clean or dirty; lordlings or chimney•sweephins. Not a button • I would rather they were not not too good !, or goody. Let us have a little naughtiness, sprinkled in ai intervals: it gives a fl tvour to the insipidity of vegetable inno;•ence. A Pharisee is not a pleasant object, bo he clad in swiOlow tails or cotton frock. And there is a social Pharisee !is well as a religions one. Clean fac) and glossy curls must never frown up,m little, smutty, streetling Publican, No, no : it is quite possible that this little sparrow-boy but rarely washes his face ; more rarely says his prayers; and never blows his nose : which practices are common with genteel canary-ehildren. But not a sparrow falleth to the ground without onr Father. Let us all have a share of natural commoness ; of whole some naughtine' a; of clean dirt. Let us stand occasionally in the corner of repentance ; " outside of all joy, like Neptune in the cold." Then will we promise to he good ; we will throw tiny arms round papa's neck ; will kiss him half way through his 3 ellow beard ; we'll be happy for ever, and ever, and ever, and live on tuffey and almond ruck. 0 the bliss of making up I The rain after drought I the sunshine atter rain ! Yea: 'tis a sweet thing and a pleasant to have been a little naughty. Eliminate misdoing from the world, and you annihilate charity. The air is uninhabitable from a surplus of oxygen. The good deea shines no longer that glistened like a glow worm in a naughty world. Imagine, reader, the humiliat ing condition of a good parson who has overdone his duty : the vestrymen are better than he ; the clerk is better than the vestry men ; the pewopener is suspected of being better than there all. Why, the church is top-heavy : another effort, and it will stand upon its spire. Come back to the old ways, my friend. There must be degrees; there must be degrees. But while I can regard with complacency a little naughtiness in cbildeen, I am grieved to the heart to see their eyes dimmed ever so little, and their cheeks ever so slightly pale. 0 me, for the faces that one sees at times, so wee, and wan, and old ! for the little tiny Elders who begin life at the wrong end I then follows a very humorous description of the horrors of rudimentary education—learning by rote:— From dawn to ev e, this summer's da y , t hey are commit ling to memory all words that end in ock, as cock, knock, block, rock, stock, smock, flock—beginning with a cock that must not crow; for the fowl is as yet unprovided with verb, and conjugation, and voice—most essential this for crowing—and mood and tense, and number an d person ; and ending with a flock that must neither frolic nor bleat. To-morrow they will give undivided at tention to words that end in dotn, as Aingdom, beadkdom ; the day following, to words in ition, as deglutition, per dition; then to words in ation, as trituration, botheration; and so on for a namth or two, till the category of ordinary words is exhausted. But cur Schoolmaster can be tender and pathetic d 8 well as sarcastic and humorous ; witness, in the chapter on the education of girls, entitled "Place dux Dames," the following touching and evidently truthful recollection : A TRIBUTE. And once upon a time, Reader—a long, long while ago —I knew a schoolmaster; and that echooltn ,, ster had a wits. And she was young, and fair, and learned ; like that princess-pupil of old Ascham ; fair and learned as Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother. And her voice was ever soft, HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, :Tune 18• Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice, at' tended by 111dIle Noralle, went to Claremont, yes' terday aternoon, and visited the Queen Marie The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley had the honour of dining with her MajestY and the Royal Family. The Duchess of Wellington left the Castle this mornirg for London. The Queen drove in the grounds this mornivg attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. Her Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, returned from London. JUNE 19. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended 11 Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yester d4 afternoon. Earl De Grey and Ripon and the Dean of Christ' church also arrived. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopoia! and Princess Beatrice, and th e L a di es a nd Gen e. men in Waiting attended Divi ne serv i ce this to rli. ti ing in the private chapel; the Very Rev. the 1 31 ° 4 of Christchurch preached the sermon. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales rode on horseback in thl forenoon on Saturday, attended by Lient.-ColoVe Keppel. iea - The Prince and Princess of Wales, acconno n by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, took A ". nags drive. The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Ile sl '7, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel and Captain ° ,l Westerweller, wait to a conversazione at the 110 College of Physicians. of The Princess of Wales and the Princess Lon io ' Hesse went to the Italian Opera, Covent Gardev” the evening, attended by the Marchioness o f Car marthen, Baroness von Grapey, and Mr. W" i ci ‘ Mr. Englehart, in the name of the Duke of N . "; castle, presented to the Princess of Wales a 01", casket, offered as a bridal gif t f ro m Lady Yo un g and the ladies of New South Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Ma! chioness of Carmarthen and Lieut.. Colonel ICePPeI in waiting, attended Divine servico at the Cho Pe' Royal, St, James's, yesterday morning. The Communion service was read by the Rev. the Subdean, the Rev. K. C. Packmao, and the Rev. H. M. Birch. The Rev. H. M. Birch preached the sermon froa l St. Matthew, chapter 17, latter part of verse 5: " Hear ye Him." The Prince and Princess Loui s o f Hesse left Marlborough House at half-past one o'clock O r Windsor Castle. theG t rnpe o l f a Palace, ec expresslyinJames's g t - o S in tr e e e li t t h z is b it elo ol re al h il i sigdbellPal: Royal Highnesses the Count and Countees de Paris will honour Frances Countess Waldegravo Wit h their presence at her ball at Strawberry Hill on Thursday' the 23d of June. The Archbishop of Canterbury received " Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and at Gladstone and a select party at dinner on SaturdaY Lambeth Palace. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesberi returced to their residence in Pall•mall on Saturday e°elv. ing, from attending the marriage of Lord and Lady BlPl3iiv stone, at Dunmore Park, near Falkirk, N.B. The Earl do Grey, who left town aft er the Cabinet Council on Saturday on a visit to her Maie stY ' returned to town this morning. The Earl of Wilton left Grosvenor-square °I/ Saturday for Cowes, Isle of Wight, for a few days. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess CO'rn tor Combermore Abbey, berniero will leave town in the course of the p resent Wee": viscount and viscountess intend to visit Bux ton this seao Lord and Lady Egerton of 'Patton entertjeea, Cheshire. The noble and gall l his Excellency Baron Eentinek, the Earl and Countess el Erne, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Genus' teas of Galloway and Lady Helen Ste wart, the Coun te a s . (Dow.) of Essex, Lord William He Lord Edward Cave dish, Mr and Lady Virginia Sandars, Hon Mrs Rashlmge• Sir Joseph Paxton, Colonel 11.1ure, Air Peel, on Saturday at the family mansion in St. James's squat, Lady Churchill has arrived at the .1 , George Hotel. Ste., at dinner gentle, and low, Reader : an excellent thing in woman. And her fingers were quick at needlework, and nimble in all a housewife's cunning. And she could draw sweet music from the ivory board ; and sweeter, stranger music from the dull life of her schoolmaster-husband. And she wss slow of heal t to understand mischitf, but her beet ran swift to do good. And she was simple with the simp licity of girlhood, and wise with the wisdom that comoth onl y of the Lord,—e.imeth only to the children of the king dom. And her sweet, young life was as a Morning Hymn , sung by child-voices to rich organ music. Time shall throw his dart at Death, ere Death has slain such another. For she died, reader : a long, long while ago. And I stood once by her grave ; her green grave, not far from dear Dunedin. Died, reader—for all she was so fair and young, and learned, and simple, and good. And lam told it made a great difference to that schoolmaster. And, ag,=.in, here is an emphatic appeal from the heart of the Schoolmaster to his fellow-labourers THE SCHOOLMASTER. Then shall he put into their tiny hands the interesting and exhaustive Biographies of the great Bus be q uius Bungfungus ; and by homoeopathic treatment each 1310 graphy shall be made to occupy many weeks ; so that the children, in reading the death of Pala3ologus, and lgithro barzanes, and other favourite heroes, may have forgotten a® circumstances of their lives. And if they read a fable, they shall read it in minute portions, so that, on arriving at the tail or moral, they may be unable to apply it to the body. And in their daily readings they shall continually slag verbal and syntactic formu'a 3 , w hich shall sound WO mystic hymns in the ears of their delighted parents. With this very eloquent definition of the dignity and duty of the schoolmaster we take leave of this very thoughtful and very interesting volume. --- The Six Sisters of the Valley : an _Historical .Romance. By the Rev. W. Brarnley-Moore, M.A. One vol. pp. 502. Illuetrated. Longman and Co, This is an historical romance, founded on t he wars of the Waldenses, c e l e b ra t e d i n the 80130e t of Milton. On the title-page the rev. author quotes from the Count d e Ilontalembert the fc44 lowing appropriate observation :—" j declare that I feel an invincible horror for all tortures 11 % violence inflicted upon humanity under the Pr ete n of serving or defending religion"—an opinio which will meet with very general sympathy frG- Christians of all denomi na ti ons i n the Preeell ,„ t century. Whether Christian c h ar ity is likely 1 ; ba promoted by a revival o f p as t an i m osities set forth in the pages of a ro mance i s a qu estion t° t might judiciously be suggested to the WI advocates of religious toleration. Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturdag Review. One vol., pp. 305. Blackwood. t The very vigorous and oc cas i ona lly bail% essays upon social subjects, whi c h h ave for O ut time past interested the readers of the Saturd a y Review, are here collect e d i n one volume, which will be welcomed by th ose a l rea d y f am iliar w ith h the writer, while other s , as y e t unacqua i n ted his felicitous animadversions upon meu and OOP' have now a pleasant opportunity of examining th e "Busy People" and "Fooli s h Thi ngs, " on "Sati n g Disagreeable Things," and "H av i ng Oae'S ° 9l.- Way ;" on "The Want of Money," and " The Uses of Pathos," on "False Shame" and " Floen c Y' h on "Snubbing" and "Shirking," &e., &c.. --511 c are the topics for consider a ti on . Th e wr iter 55 5 14 happily, on the title-page, that he "sat down t° write a book to tell the w or ld w h a t the wo rld had all his life been t e lli ng hi m "— a nd 613c4 is evidently the case. These essays are for the most part the results of attentive observati°ll9 and if they are some of them superficial in °Jeir mode of treatment, they are ail animated and cious in style, white, besides that, most of W in very interesting and attractive. .s..mmormew. e lf n . /unto